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Culture, Religion, and Inequality Andrew J. Perrin - SOCI 101.004 September 22, 2015 Andrew J. Perrin - SOCI 101.004 Culture, Religion, and Inequality September 22, 2015 1 / 1 PollEverywhere Preparation http://www.pollev.com/andrewperrin

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Culture, Religion, and Inequality

Andrew J. Perrin - SOCI 101.004 September 22, 2015

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PollEverywhere Preparation

http://www.pollev.com/andrewperrin Gender Religion

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Remember Causal Logic

Remember: good sociological questions have causal logics to them What does religion cause? What causes religion? Prior question (operationalization): what is religion?

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PollEverywhere: What is Religion?

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What do we mean by religion?

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What do we mean by religion?

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What do we mean by religion?

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Religious Identification in the US

Protestant: 51.3% Catholic: 23.9% Jewish: 1.7% Unaffiliated: 16.1% (includes 1.6% atheist)

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Who attends?

Age

Age Group % More than Monthly 18–29 30.2 30–44 40.6 45–59 40.6 60–74 48.7 75+ 58.4 Source: GSS 2008

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Who attends?

Region

Region % More than Monthly Northeast 31.3 Midwest 43.1 South 49.3 West 33.7 US Total 41.1 Source: GSS 2008

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Who attends?

Politics

Region % More than Monthly Liberal 28.3 Moderate 37.6 Conservative 55.3 Source: GSS 2008

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Who attends?

Education

Region % More than Monthly Left high school 37.2 High school 39.9 Junior college 45.7 Bachelor’s 42.4 Graduate 45.7 Source: GSS 2008

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PollEverywhere: Religious Identification

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Durkheim

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. Formes (Trans. Fields) 44

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PollEverywhere: Durkheim

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Secularization

Most sociological theory expects less religion as time goes on Hasn’t really panned out Recent studies: varieties of religious experience, thinking, and approaches

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Religious Service Attendance

  • Approx. 40% report attendance

Very stable since statistics began being collected in 1934 Higher than most of the world

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PollEverywhere: Religious Commitment

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The Sacred Canopy

Peter Berger Problem: How to explain the persistence of religion? Humans as meaning-making animals Religion provides the functional means to avoid “existential terror”

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The Religious Marketplace

Do you choose your religion? How? New paradigm in the sociology of religion “Rational choice” Low-investment churches and turnout decline

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Measuring religion

Content - what do you believe? Conduct - what do you practice? Centrality - how important is it to you?

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Overreporting religion

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World Religious Denominations

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World Religious Sensibilities

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PollEverywhere: Effects of Religion

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What does religion do?

Attenders are...

...happier ...more conservative ...more likely to volunteer ...more likely to give ...less tolerant ...less knowledgeable about science

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What does religion do?

Mooney, Faith Makes Us Live, 2009

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Freedom vs. Belief?

Korteweg and Yurdakul, The Headscarf Debates, 2014

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Freedom vs. Belief?

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The New Atheism

Sam Harris The End of Faith Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great Richard Dawkins The God Delusion Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell

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